Czech establishes sect, tortures its members

Czech News Agency/May 28, 2008

Brno, South Moravia - Czech police in Brno have uncovered a sect
whose 74-year-old spiritual leader for many years tortured five
elderly women using them for slave labour for which he faces up to 12
years in prison, police officer Oldrich Kriz who is in charge of the
case told journalists Tuesday.

The sect was based on the principles of the Grail Movement.

The pensioner, who has appointed himself the spiritual leader of the
sect and his wife considered herself the sect's queen, lived in a
joint household with five elderly women.

From the start, the women gave their pensions to the man, let him
treat their illnesses using herbs and held joint spiritual meetings.

In 2000 the man transferred the ownership of their flats and houses on
to himself, with their consent and then he formed a work team of the
women.

The team worked at the construction of a luxury three-storey house of
their leader in Brno doing rough brick-laying work.

The women also worked at his vineyard in south Moravia where they made
stone paths for tractors.

Some of the women lived almost 20 years in the joint household with
their spiritual leader. They were completely deprived of food that
otherwise was very meagre for any disobedience of his orders.

Doctors' checks revealed that the level of women's malnutrition was
similar to that of former concentration camp prisoners.

Police uncovered the case after one of the sect members refused to
further obey the leader's orders and informed doctors of her problems.

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